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WEDNESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2011
$22m to get rid of PM
MARK DAVIS
HOW much does it cost to bring
down a prime minister? The
answer: a tad over $22 million.
That’s how much the mining
industry spent in six weeks last
year on its campaign against
Kevin Rudd’s plan for a resource
super profit tax.
The advertising and public
relations campaign dominated
the airwaves in... Read more
Cancer drug’s fatal side
CARLA JOHNSON
CHICAGO: A new analysis raises
fresh questions about the risks
of the blockbuster cancer drug
Avastin, suggesting the chance
of dying from side effects linked
to it is higher than the risk for
patients on chemotherapy alone.
The drug’s alarming problems
- s evere bleeding, holes in the
bowel, problems... Read more
Murray-Darling worth $9.8b
A healthy Murray-Darling Basin
is worth $9.8 billion to Australia,
environmentalists say.
The Australian Conservation
Foundation has done the sums
and says it’s another reason to
invest in the river system and
bring it back to health.
The foundation’s economic
adviser Simon O’Connor used
previous figures... Read more
US braces for blizzards
A “life-threatening” storm
grounded one-fifth of all
scheduled flights in the US on
Tuesday as blizzard warnings
were posted for nine states,
Chicago faced a record-setting
snowfall and ice and snow pelted
the northeast.
The storm is affecting at least
30 US states from the Rocky
Mountains to the... Read more
NATION&WORLD
CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak says he will not run for a
new term in office in the country’s
September elections, but has
rejected demands that he step down
immediately and leave the country,
vowing to die on Egypt’s soil.
His announcement in a television
address on Tuesday after a dramatic
day in which a quarter-million
protesters in Cairo called on him to
go, received an angry response from
those watching in Tahrir square.
Egyptians came from all over the
country to join what became the
culmination of a week-long uprising
aimed at removing Egypt’s long-time
authoritarian ruler... Read more
Boom economy: PM labours the point
AUSTRALIA must get many more people into the labour force or
working more, Julia Gillard has said.
In her first economic speech of 2011, the Prime Minister said:
‘’To the maximum extent possible, I want to ensure that every
Australian who can work, does work.
‘’I want to ensure that the incentives of work... Read more
Followers defend spiritual leader
DELHI: Thousands of devotees and monks have demonstrated
across India to show their support for Tibetan Buddhism’s third
most important spiritual leader, who has been questioned by
Indian police about cash worth about $800,000 found in the
Buddhist monastery in northern India where he lives.
Lines of Tibetan exiles carried candles and pictures of the
Karmapa, whose full name is Ogyen Trinley Dorje... Read more
Jordan king fires govt, Islamists slam PM
AMMAN: King Abdullah II of Jordan has sacked the
government after weeks of protests, but his choice of
replacement premier failed to satisfy the powerful Islamist
opposition’s demands for reform.
The king on Tuesday named Maruf Bakhit, 64, to replace Samir
Rifai, 43, with orders to carry out “true political reforms,” the
palace said, but the Islamists criticised the choice... Read more
Anger as Mubarak
announces September exit
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